Our Garden

Brian and I have always said we would love to have a vegetable garden. Now that we have our own house, we can do that! It was too late in the summer when we moved in last year, so we decided to give it a go this year. We started out small, with tomatoes, cucumbers, and green peppers. We planted them in plastic totes, partly because we're not sure yet where we'd like to put a garden permanently, and because Papa has had good success growing these veggies this way. We also have some chives and oregano growing and we want to add more herbs too.

Grace loves the garden. She helped plant everything and loves doing the watering. She is always very proud to show guests her veggie garden and tell them what's what and how they're doing.

We lost our first bunch of cucumbers due to frost. Guess we planted too early! Everything is coming along nicely now, including our second batch of cucumbers. We picked our first cucumber the other night! It was really good; not too seedy, nice and crisp.

Checking out the tomatoes. "Still green! We can't pick them!"

Anna likes to help in the garden too.

Pointing out some of the bigger peppers.

Getting ready to pick the first cucumber!

First bite!

Anna had some too! I think it felt good on her gums.